On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 16:49 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > On 04/11/2011 16:45, drew wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 16:00 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >> On 04/11/2011 15:56, drew wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 15:29 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >>>> Hey guys I know there has been alot of chatter about user forums. Here > >>>> is my suggestion. > >>>> > >>>> I am setting up my own forums using phpbb and here are a few points that > >>>> i would like to make in regards to using it. > >>>> > >>>> 1) Localization > >>>> > >>>> I only need one language, but localization administration seems quite > >>>> easy to do via the administrator control panel. > >>>> > >>>> 2) Forum security. > >>>> > >>>> Forum security is a big issue especially against spammers and those who > >>>> break the forum rules. Image based captcha comes as part of phpbb and > >>>> one needs to ensure the appropriate required packages are installed for > >>>> it to work. > >>>> > >>>> Another issue is those people who break forum rules. Bans can be made > >>>> using a persons email address as well as ip address and vice versa to > >>>> ensure that a given person cannot re register. > >>>> > >>>> Forum permissions are easy to manage as well as everyone ends up in a > >>>> group, and those groups are given particular permissions depending on > >>>> the group. > >>>> <snip>
> > > > This is, I think, a better time to continue this conversation not so > > much from the view of a web form features - but a bit more to see how > > much interest there is from folks willing to help answer questions that > > way - looking at those numbers on the wiki again one specific number > > that should not be overlooked is the number of un-answered topics on the > > phpBB de language forum - even inside the domain it's not a slam dunk - > > the key is less the package (phpBB/Joomla/Drupal) and much more who is > > actively watching out for activity. > > <snip> > > > > > Is there a way for all moderators to be emailed when there is a new > thread or post to a thread with out requiring all posts to be approved > by moderators? > Well, one does not need to be a moderator to have behavior, phpBB specifically, and with all of the packages I know off, any registered user can set a watch flag on a specific board(s) - though the BBS software packages have evolved to use a notification pattern weighted to be as un-obtrusive as possible. What that means is that when someone watches a list (or group of lists) a notification email is sent when the first update happens on (a new topic or new post - no packages I know of trigger an email if the only change is an edit to an existing post) that list - and does NOT send additional notifications until you login to the site next _and_ read at least one of the updates message threads. This can throw people at first. //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
